From Student to Urban Planner

Tuna Taşan-Kok is an urban social geographer and planner, and works as a university Professor in the Department of Human Geography, Urban Planning and International Development, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in social geography and planning from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and a MSc. in regional planning from METU, Ankara, Turkey.Mark Oranje is a Professor in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His key areas of teaching, research, and consulting are planning policy, planning history, regional development, intergovernmental development planning, and the interface between mining and settlement development.

• List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Boxes, Contributors, Preface (Tuna Taşan-Kok & Mark Oranje) Chapter 1. Why It Is Important to Give Voice to Young Practitioners (Tuna Taşan-Kok & Mark Oranje) Part 1: Education, Reality, and Ethical Challenges Chapter 2. Mismatch Between Planning Education and Practice: Contemporary Educational Challenges and Conflicts Confronting Young Planners (Tuna Taşan-Kok , Ela Babalık-Sutcliffe, Elsona van Huyssteen & Mark Oranje) Chapter 3. Challenges of Planning Practice and Profession: To What Extent Young Are Planners Able to Intervene? (Jef Van den Broeck) Part 2: Lost, Oblivious, or Boundary Pushing? Responses from Practicing Planners Chapter 4. A Spider in the Web or a Puppet on a String? Swedish Planning Students’ Reflections on Their Future Professional Role (Moa Tunström) Chapter 5. Lost in Transition: Fledging Planners in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Aleksandra Djurasovic) Chapter 6. Good Intentions, Deep Frustrations and Upward Mobility: Just Another Young Planner’s Day in South Africa (Mark Oranje, Sanell Venter & Albert Ferreira) Chapter 7. Breakfast at Tiffany’s: Young Planners Mobilising Against the Planning of Towers in Tel Aviv (Talia Margalit) Chapter 8. Confronted and Disappointed? Struggle of Turkish Planners Against Authoritarian State-Regulated Urban Development (Tuna Taşan-Kok & Mehmet Penpecioğlu) Chapter 9. In Search of a Place: Young Planners’ Reflections on Planning and Practice (Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz) Chapter 10. "Things Can Only Get Better?" Transitioning from Planning Student to Planner in the England of the 1990s and 2000s (Olivier Sykes) Chapter 11. "The Door is Now Half Open": How Work Placement Experiences Better Prepare Planning Graduates for Practice – An Australian Case Study (John Jackson) Chapter 12. Planning for Rights: Bewildered Young Planners in Brazil (Roberto Rocco) Chapter 13. Facing up to Finnish Planning Pathologies: A Contextual Interpretation of Planner Capabilities and a Call for Change (Jonna Kangasoja & Hanna Mattila) Chapter 14. The Self-Conception of German Planners as Pioneers for Sustainability Transition (Joerg Knieling & Katharina Klindworth) Chapter 15. "I Shall Survive": Planners’ Strategies in the Face of the Strong Asymmetry of Illegal Powers in Italy (Daniela De Leo) Chapter 16. A New Generation of Professionals in Urban Planning – A System Full of Limitations – The Case of Hungary (Zsuzsa Földi) Chapter 17. A New Role for Young Planners in the Netherlands: Still a Planners’ Paradise? (Willem K. Korthals Altes & Tuna Taşan-Kok) Chapter 18. Deregulation of the Spatial Planners’ Profession in Poland and the New Inconsistent System: What Happens Next? (Magdalena Zaleczna) Chapter 19. Planning Pedagogy and Practices in Transition: Taiwan’s Young Planners and Their Challenges of Finding Purpose in Planning (Sue-Ching Jou & Shu-Mei Huang) Part 3: Recommendations, Reflections, and Conclusions Chapter 20. A Quest for a Critical Debate and New Ideas (Louis Albrechts) Chapter 21. Editors’ Reflections and Conclusions (Tuna Taşan-Kok & Mark Oranje) Afterword: Notes on the Critical Study of Planning Practices (John Forester) Index